Milwaukee’s Summerfest — the largest music festival in the U.S. by attendance — has been canceled, festival organizers announced on Thursday. Originally scheduled to take place in June, the annual festival was pushed to late September back in March as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic first hit the U.S., but continued …
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Lita Danlag, 29, an ICU nurse from Fort Walton Beach, Florida, had spent more than a year trying to get pregnant. In the winter of 2019, she and her husband suffered a devastating blow when they lost a pregnancy, but they continued trying to the point that it became a …
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Texas trio Khruangbin have shared a bright, soothing new song called “So We Won’t Forget,” from their upcoming album Mordechai, out June 26th on Dead Oceans. The warm guitar track was released with a music video directed by Scott Dungate and produced by Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo x Nakama. In the heartwarming …
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Avant-garde collective the Residents recently teamed up with the Pixies‘ Black Francis to craft a searing indictment of U.S. President Donald Trump: the fiery cut, “Die! Die! Die!” The video for that song drops Friday, replete with imagery of the coronavirus, the president and “666,” otherwise known as the number …
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British-Jamaican label Island Records has announced the One Love COVID-19 Relief Auction to provide aid during the coronavirus pandemic. The event, hosted byPoseactor and writer Billy Porter, will be broadcast live on May 21st at 1:00 p.m. EST (6:00 p.m. BST). Items for auction include a pair of Amy Winehouse’s …
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, who has stood beside President Trump throughout much of the administration’s response to the coronavirus, will tell the Senate Tuesday that Americans will experience “needless suffering and death” if the country reopens prematurely. “If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines …
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Madonna said she she plans to take a long drive and “breathe in the COVID-19 air” after saying she tested positive for the coronavirus antibodies in the latest installment of her Quarantine Diary series on Instagram. “Took a test the other day and I found out that I have the …
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Jack Johnson will be hosting his own at-home music festival, Kokua Festival 2020 – Live From Home, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day and in support of the Kokua Hawai’i Foundation. The two-hour livestream will be hosted by Johnson from the front porch of his home on …
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UPDATE: Fountains of Wayne will play their first live set in seven years at the Jersey 4 Jersey benefit concert, paying tribute to late band member Adam Schlesinger, who died earlier this month from complications related to COVID-19. Surviving Fountains of Wayne members Chris Collingwood, Jody Porter and Brian Young …
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In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, TikTok has pledged $250 million to support frontline medical workers, educators and local communities — in addition to $25 million in ads to help organizations convey public health information. One hundred million dollars in ad credits will go to businesses looking to rebuild, while …
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